Lieutenant General Vu Chien Thang (R) presents the token of medical supplies to Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Pranay Verma (Photo: https://www.qdnd.vn/)Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Defence has presented the token of medicalsupplies to India to support the country’s fight against COVID-19.
Lieutenant General Vu Chien Thang, DirectorGeneral of the Foreign Relations Department under the Ministry of Defence chaired the hand-over ceremony on May 24, during which he spotlighted fruitful developmentof the traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership betweenVietnam and India as well as their defence cooperation in recent times.
He expressed gratitude to the Indian Government and people for theirsupport, valuable COVID-19 prevention experience and documents shared withVietnam last year when Vietnam was hit by COVID-19 outbreaks.
Thang also thanked the Indian Ministry of Defence for its effective assistance in training to improve the quality of human resources, non-refundable aid andpreferential credit packages for industrial and defence development.
He expressed his hope that these medical supplies will contribute to helpingthe Indian people overcome challenges from COVID-19 and soon repel the health crisis, which is causing severe effects in the South Asian country.
For his part, Indian Ambassador to Vietnam Pranay Verma thanked andhighly valued the Vietnamese ministry’s valuable asisstance to the Indian people, sayingthat the ministry’s timely spiritual and material support shows solidarity,friendship and sharing of difficulties between the people and armies of thetwo countries.
He affirmed that in more than a year of dealing with COVID-19, India has learned important lessons about the importance ofinternational cooperation in fighting the pandemic, emphasising the significance ofVietnam’s medical supplies for the Indian people at present.
At the ceremony held by Sai Gon Newport Corporation at the Moc Bai International Border Gate in Tay Ninh province to hand over medical equipment and supplies to the Royal Cambodian Navy (Photo: https://www.qdnd.vn/)The same day, under the authorisation of the Naval High Command,the Sai Gon Newport Corporation held a ceremony at the Moc Bai International Border Gate in the southern province of Tay Ninh tohand over medical equipment and supplies to the Royal Cambodian Navy to helpthe country prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic.
The donations included two motorized sprayers, 10 battery-powered sprayers,100,000 made-in-Vietnam three-layer medical masks, 500kg of disinfectantchemical Chloramin B, and 1,000 bottles of hand sanitizer.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Royal Cambodian Navy's Deputy Chief of theGeneral Staff Vice Admiral Non Sophat expressed his sincere thanks to the VietnamPeople's Navy for its assistance for its Cambodian counterpart in preventing theCOVID-19 pandemic, saying that this demonstrates the good friendship betweenthe two countries' navies, armies and people, he said.
The Sai Gon Newport Corporation also presented 10,000 medicalface masks to officers and soldiers at the Moc Bai International Border Gate Border Guard Station./.
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